So, if I think both the OWS and the Tea Party movements suck, how exactly would I go about changing the world? It’s an interesting questions because one of my goals in life is to leave this world in a better condition than I found it. Whether or not I have kids, I want my impact on this world (and on my country) to be positive. I don’t need to be the next Abraham Lincoln or Tim Bernars Lee, but I would like to have a net positive impact. This is especially important to me these days when the world seems to be in a bit of trouble all around. We have environmental issues, economic collapse, political instability, leaders who seem clueless and politicians who seem completely out of touch. In the face of all this, it’s easy to feel powerless and just give up. However, there are still plenty of ways in which one person can have an impact and I’m going to use this post to list a few. [Read more...]
which I highly recommend for anyone wrestling with organizational issues. It was a simple solution and basically called for me to write things down.
) has the hero being given some random data about gold prices, beard lengths, skirt lengths and then being told to make sense of it. At first, our heroine thinks this is nonsense, a crazy assignment meant to annoy her. However, she slowly begins to see connections until she gets to the point where she can predict the price of gold simply by looking at a picture and examining beard and skirt lengths.
